** Description changed:

  The permissions of the /dev/nvidia files cause errors when processes are
  launched with non-root privileges on my 64-bit 9.04 desktop system.
  
- In my case I get Direct Rendering errors when launching a XP VM inside
- VMware Server, but running glxinfo or glxgears without sudo shows the
- error:
+ In my case I get Direct Rendering errors when launching a Direct
+ Rendering enabled VM inside VMware Server, but running glxinfo without
+ sudo shows the error:
  
  NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (Permission
  denied).
  
- I have found many other posts with the same issue, and here is my
- current workaround since reinstalling the 180 driver package did not fix
- it:
+ I have found many other posts with the same issue (including people
+ using Wine), and here is my current workaround since reinstalling the
+ 180 driver package did not fix it:
  
  gksudo gedit /etc/rc.local
  
  Add the following before "exit 0":
  
  chmod 666 /dev/nvidia* &
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
  NonfreeKernelModules: vmmon nvidia
  Package: nvidia-glx-180 180.44-0ubuntu1
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-11-generic (bui...@crested) (gcc version 
4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC 2009
  SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180
  Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

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No Nvidia direct rendering unless root user
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370249
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